On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:26:47 +0100, "JoeJoe" wrote:


Despite using it only on the very rare occasion, one battery is now
completely dead (wouldn't charge), and the other discharges after about 10
minute work.

3 years life out of a drill battery is pretty good going. The PP
ones (in common with nearly all of the cheaper units) are also very
prone to battery damage by even slight overcharging.

I am not particularly please to say the least. It was £90 - hardly a cheap
and nasty one I would have thought, and I believe that I have the right to
expect it to work beyond 3 years.

For a battery drill ?

Is there anything I can do about it?

Not a lot, you can try to persuade them differently but you are
unlikely to get anywhere by any other means.

As a worse case scenario I was thinking about forcing them to fix it as I
believe they are obliged to do

There is no such obligation. If it is not repairable and they are
responsible the most they have to give you is the price you paid
rebated by an amount to take into account the three years use you
have had. For a battery drill that is likely to be a trivial amount.

--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/